Relaciones de Clase en el Sistema Universitario y su Efecto sobre el Rendimiento Académico: El Caso de Bogotá.

Abstract

The following investigation aims to present an analysis of the hierarchizationof the higher educational system of Bogotá. Furthermore, in this article it is attempted to understand the distribution and concentration of the students in the universities according to their social origin inquiring for the effect of social origin differences in academic performance, specifically in the ICFES SABER PRO test. Factorial analysis models and correlation techniques were used using the statistical information of the Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación ICFES as source of evidence. The analysis of the collected evidences demonstrates the existence of a strong relation between the social origin and the university of destiny, generating a highly stratificated higher education system characterized by the major participation of private universities, along with a moderate relation between the social origin and the academic performance of the students.